There is a knowing and understanding that how we begin our day has a great effect on how our day will continue to unravel, so to say. Say we were to wake up late, rushing around to catch up and get on with things...get the children off to school, get to work on time etc. Say, maybe your dog runs away and throws your whole schedule off. OK, all the above has happened to me plenty and I can clearly recall how those days spiraled into further inconvenience and situations mounting. You know, the coffee pot gets clogged with grounds and overflows all over, children needing more assistance (gravitating off your energy), losing your keys, maybe forgetting your keys in the house (after locking the door behind you to leave). Whoa, more delays. I think you get my point! :)

Well, it took me some time and discipline with myself to incorporate a better routine of thought which helped me greatly. As my friend Michelle Laub assists through her guidance of Life Coaching and Gratitude through her phone conferences. Creating a schedule to set some time at the beginning of you day to stop and take note of all the great relationships and things in our lives has a great affect upon us and how our days will unfold. I also like to set an intention for the day and what I would like to accomplish. The ability to see and feel what we would like to achieve is very powerful and helps us in baby-steps for broader outcomes as well.  Some helpful tips would be to have some mantra or thoughts of something happy to think about should you feel blindsided with a situation and also either a meditation cd or calming and enlightening in your vehicle as well. Below is an example of a meditation of gratitude with Deepok Chopra. I hope you enjoy.

Namaste... :)

The best way to show our gratitude is to receive the gift (of life), and give our thanks by enjoying the gift, by living our lives fully and completely, by always doing our best.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. This first person to send gratitude to is yourself,

~Buddhist Wisdom

Be grateful for what you have now. As you begin to think about all the things in your life you are grateful for, you will be amazed at the never ending thoughts that come back to you of more things to be grateful for. You have to make a start, and then the law of attraction will receive those grateful thoughts and give you more just like them.

~ Rhonda Byrne

“Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgment of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties." ~ Sara Ban Breathnach

"I’d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others, never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat." ~ Joan Mills

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

泥evelop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." ~ Brian Tracy

"Where there is gratitude, there is humility, as opposed to pride"

~ Rachel Woods

“I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.” ~ Ellie Wiesel

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude.

Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness.

Thankfulness may consist merely of words.

Gratitude is shown in acts."

~ David O. McKay